Ron Chernow Quote
A southerner by choice, Akerman found it sobering to verify the depth of Klan penetration in the region, which revealed a perversion of moral sentiment among the Southern whites which bodes ill to that part of the country for this generation.97 On a single day in November, 250 people in one South Carolina county confessed affiliation with the group. As Akerman expressed the matter with deep feeling: I doubt whether from the beginning of the world until now, a community, nominally civilized, has been so fully under the domination of systematic and organized depravity.98
Ron Chernow
A southerner by choice, Akerman found it sobering to verify the depth of Klan penetration in the region, which revealed a perversion of moral sentiment among the Southern whites which bodes ill to that part of the country for this generation.97 On a single day in November, 250 people in one South Carolina county confessed affiliation with the group. As Akerman expressed the matter with deep feeling: I doubt whether from the beginning of the world until now, a community, nominally civilized, has been so fully under the domination of systematic and organized depravity.98